This content is copyright of CelebMix.com. The OffWestEnd Awards (OFFIES) have announced their nominations for 2026, celebrating independent theatre and recognising exceptional work across the Off-West End. Following the introduction of a streamlined awards framework last year for the ceremony, the OFFIES underwent their first full year operating using this evolved model. The structure has continued to bed in and develop, offering a clearer, more flexible way of recognising excellence across the wide range of forms, scales, and practices that define independent theatre today. To raise the standard of OFFIES nomination, this year the awards bring together what were previously separate Finalist and rolling Nominee announcements into a single, unified list. The change establishes a shared philosophy of excellence across all nominations, while removing the rigid quotas of the former category model. In doing so, it both strengthens what it means to be nominated and opens up the ceremony itself - allowing a broader range of work, voices and scales of production to be recognised. The OFFIES have a history of spotlighting groundbreaking theatre before it reaches mainstream acclaim, with past winners including Baby Reindeer, Fleabag and Operation Mincemeat. This year's nominees reflect the breadth of the Off-West End sector, bringing together emerging grassroots talent and well-known performers from stage and screen who consistently return to independent venues to create new work. 2026 OFFIES Nominations This year's nominations reflect the extraordinary range and ambition of work produced across Off-West End venues over the past year, spanning emerging artists, established practitioners choosing to work independently, and productions that have gone on to reach wider audiences. Below is the full list of the 2026 nominees, recognising outstanding work across the Off-West End sector. Production (the) Woman / New Perspectives / Park Theatre Alice In Wonderland / Dem Productions / Marylebone Theatre Animal Farm / Stratford East, Leeds Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse / Stratford East Brixton Calling / Kick It Anywhere / Southwark Playhouse Candy / Gaia House Productions / White Bear Theatre Cry-Baby, The Musical / Arcola Theatre / Arcola Theatre Dick Whittington and His Catford Cat / Joy Productions / Broadway Theatre (Catford) Insane Asylum Seekers / Bush Theatre, Camille Koosyial / Bush Theatre Jonny Woo: Suburbia / Jonny Woo / Soho Theatre KENREX / Aria Entertainment / Southwark Playhouse L'Elisir d'Amore / St Paul's Opera / St. Paul's Church, SW4 L'incirinazione di Poppea / Hgo / Jacksons Lane Letters From Max / Hampstead Theatre / Hampstead Theatre Mama Goose / Stratford East / Stratford East Monster / Veritas Theatre Company / Seven Dials Playhouse Mr Jones / Wilmas Productions / Finborough Theatre My Mother's Funeral / Paines Plough, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Mercury Theatre Colchester / The Yard Theatre One Man Musical / Flo & Joan And Avalon / Underbelly Boulevard Play On! / Lyric Hammersmith, Talawa Theatre Company, Belgrade Theatre, Birmingham Hippodrome, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, Wiltshire Creative, J Clare Productions, Chuchu Nwagu Productions, Willette And Manny Klausner / Lyric Hammersmith Salty Brine: He's So Unusual (The Cyndi Lauper show) / The Living Record Collection And Soho Theatre / Soho Theatre Scenes from the Climate Era / Gate Theatre / Playground Theatre Small Forward / Ks6 / Barbican The Billionaire Inside Your Head / Hampstead Theatre / Hampstead Theatre The Double Act / Arcola Theatre / Arcola Theatre The Firework Maker's Daughter / Polka Theatre, Kate Bradshaw / Polka Theatre The Flowers of Srebrenica / Legal Aliens Theatre / Jacksons Lane The Grim / Medium Rare Productions, Pither Productions / Old Red Lion Theatre The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights / Park Theatre Productions, Papatango Theatre Company / Park Theatre The Mikado / Forbear! Theatre / Drayton Arms Theatre The Mystery of Irma Vep - a Penny Dreadful / Jack Studio Theatre / Jack Studio Theatre The Pitchfork Disney / Lidless Theatre / King's Head Theatre The Rivals / Orange Tree Theatre / Orange Tree Theatre Tones - A Hip-Hop Opera / Brixton House, Wound Up Theatre / Brixton House UPROOTED / Ephemeral Ensemble / New Diorama When the World Turns / Oily Cart / Southbank Centre Performance Jamie-Rose Monk / (the) Woman / Park Theatre The Cast / After Sunday / Bush Theatre Caroline Gruber, Zoe Goriely / As Long As We Are Breathing / Arcola Theatre Shiloh Coke, Sam Bampoe-parry / Belly of the Beast / Finborough Theatre Samuel Barnett, Victoria Yeates / Ben and Imo / Orange Tree Theatre Rochelle Rose / Black Power Desk / Brixton House Max Runham, Tendai Humphrey Sitima / Brixton Calling / Southwark Playhouse Paul Keating / Clive / Arcola Theatre Alejandro Postigo / Copla: A Spanish Cabaret / The Other Palace (Studio) Charles Dance, Nicholas Farrell, Geraldine James / Creditors / Orange Tree Theatre Meghan Tyler, Rachael R